Timo Worst
@timoworst.bsky.social
www.knittelbooks.com Author of "Career, Crimes and Trial of SS-Sturmbannführer Gustav Knittel", "A Week of Horror in the Ardennes: an investigation into the war crimes of Schnelle Gruppe Knittel" and "The SS in the Ambléve Valley".
In front of the small farm where the SS shot and killed Alphonse and Jeanne Loffet and their daughter Julia, and where the Fahrradzug was devastatingly defeated by 117/I in a brief skirmish.
Our regular spot when we are in Stavelot, following in the footsteps of the events of December 1944: Mrs. Pirotte's B&B: www.aufildesarts.be
My account of the tragic murder by the SS of the five residents of the Depas farm, of which the youngest victim, Juliette Depas, was only five years old...
Patrick Coppens shares his meticulous investigation into the victims of the murders in La Vaulx-Richard with us, after which I provided a further explanation regarding the responsible SS soldiers... #battleofthebulge
Guido Schommers gives an expert presentation on the fighting and murders in Ligneuville...
It was another pleasant gathering in Stavelot, including a visit to the Chateau de Petit-Spay...
La Vaulx-Richard, the 4th of May 1987: inauguration of the monument for the G.I.'s murdered by Ustuf. Dröge's Pionierzug. #battleofthebulge #worldwar2 #worldwarII #ww2 #worldwartwo #stavelot
20th of June 1940: SS-Untersturmführer Karl Böttcher in his Sd.Kfz. 231 at the Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand (photo by SS PK-Berichter Weil). #worldwarII #worldwartwo #history #WW2 #WW2History #historybooks #ww2thenandnow
The Rue Haut Rivage with Tiger tank '105' buried in the Lemaire house. On the right the Degbomont house: the hole caused by a Tiger trying to pass '105' is boarded up but still clearly visible.
Wessel testified after the war that he drove all the way up the Rue Haute Rivage to what he described as a ‘rectangular square’ where his tank got two hits on the bow, urging him to back up the tank causing its driver to crash into the building.
SS-Obersturmführer Jürgen Wessel, commander of Tiger '105' and company commander of the 1. Kompanie, schwere SS Panzer-Abteilung 501. #battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #ww2 #worldwar2 #historybook
Spring 1945: Joseph Gérard and his little brother Marius on top of Tiger '105' in the rubble of the house of Justin Lemaire in the rue Haute Rivage in Stavelot. The tank of Ostuf. Jürgen Wessel stood there since the afternoon of 19.12.1944. #battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #historybook
“Don't you know that the Guard's donkeys have the rank of mules” - Elséar Blaze: ‘La Vie Militaire’
Gustav Rommel was born on 4.5.1926 in the village of Aldingen and served in the 5. (schwere) Kompanie of the SS-PzAA12 HJ when he was transferred to the SS-PzAA1 LSSAH on 9.5.1944. Rommel rests at the German military cemetery in Douvre-la-Délivrande. Photo @maroboduus.bsky.social
My AHF forum post about the much discussed and commonly misidentified MG-Gunner photographed on December 18, 1944, on the road from Recht to Poteau. No, he is not Hans Tragarsky, nor is he Walter Armbrust or Heinz Mäger. His identity is still unknown...
Een video over Chateau du Petit Spai/Trois Ponts. Op 18 dec. 1944 neemt de SS het in bezit. De aanwezige kinderen +verzorgers worden in de kelder opgesloten. Het chateau wordt tijdens beschietingen zwaar beschadigd. Al jaren is een ontwikkelaar van plan om het te slopen. Dat gaat nu ws echt gebeuren
“When I close my eyes I see the corpses. I got the advice to tear it up to forget it. But it has always accompanied me, no matter where. What should I do? I'd like to forget, but I can't.” - Régine Grégoire-Heuser in 2004 #battleofthebulge #historybook #worldwartwo #worldwar2 #stavelot #ww2
Staff Sergeant Howard E. King, 3rd platoon, Company A, 117th Infantry Regiment, was killed in action on the western edge of Stavelot on the evening of the 19th of December 1944. His platoon was defending the Lambert villa against the the advancing Schnelle Gruppe Knittel. #battleofthebulge #ww2
53-year-old tannery owner Tony Lambert was shot dead by the SS at the doorstep of his villa in the afternoon of the 18th of December 1944. The culprits most likely belonged to the 2. (gep.) Kompanie, SS-PzAA1, part of Schnelle Gruppe Knittel. #battleofthebulge #worldwartwo #historybook #ww2
The villa ‘Les Quartiers’, locally known as the Lambert villa, was located on the western edge of Stavelot on the main road to Trois-Ponts. The villa was built in 1932, was never restored after the war and was demolished in 1959 after the death of Elisabeth Lambert-Bock #battleofthebulge #worldwar2
"It is pointless to judge the sense of that offensive today, for we are wiser now and our perspective has changed. Back then we were all in the same boat; who could have jumped ship, and did we even want to? I don’t think so, for what other choice did we have but the one called ‘unconditional’?"
In the afternoon of the 18th of December 1944, 56-year-old Stavelot mailman Edouard Gonay was taken from his house and murdered by SS soldiers who were likely stragglers from gepanzerte Gruppe Peiper who had remained with Panther tank ‘115’. #battleofthebulge #ardennes #worldwartwo #warcrime #ww2
SS-Sturmbannführer Karst, commander of the I. Bataillon, SS-Panzergrenadier-Regiment 1, photographed before the war. It was his battalion of Kampfgruppe Hansen that clashed with Task Force Mayes between Recht and Poteau on 18.12.1944. #battleofthebulge #poteau #worldwartwo #ww2 #worldwar2
